It’s pretty tense in NZ at the moment with enormous peer pressure been applied to get everyone vaccinated. The original target was 90% which has been exceeded in some areas, but the restrictions still haven’t been lifted.
The video is from a talk show in the UK which shows her in a rather unflattering light
It’s slowly becoming clear to the average person that their PM may be less than honest.
The following is a comment from a prominent NZ athlete (Russell Coutts) who travels overseas a lot. It’s a very accurate picture of where New Zealand is now.
After experiencing what it’s like in Europe since May, it appears there are a lot of things being mis-reported in New Zealand. The media here seems set on promoting fear. It would be interesting to send a truly independent news crew offshore to report on what it’s really like in a more balanced way….I suspect most kiwi’s would be incredibly surprised. If you doubt what I’m saying then turn on the TV and check out the full stadiums at various sports events overseas.
Check out the Premier League, Champions League or the recent Ryder Cup. The All Blacks just played against the USA in front of 40,000 fans in Washington DC. The fact is that people are living with Covid offshore and although some people, perhaps many, rightly remain cautious, life has largely returned to normal in many places. But that is not what we are being told here in New Zealand.
The erosion of our freedom of choice, freedom of speech and the loss of precious time with family and friends and all the other negative aspects of a lockdown should be balanced against the health risk of Covid. Imagine if we had invested the 1 billion plus spent each week on lockdowns on improving our health system, education or roading (we had 8 road deaths in NZ last weekend).
It seems totally insane that double vaccinated people are terrified of meeting unvaccinated people. Is that how it’s going to be for the rest of our lives? What about the people that have health issues and can’t get vaccinated? Are they going to be banished from society? (for the record I’m double vaccinated)
Finally the fact that the NZ government has now said that even if Auckland achieves 90% double vaccination that it’s people may likely still be restricted from traveling at Christmas seems like a total nonsense. (For those overseas people reading this, Auckland already has 93% first dose and 82% second dose vaccinated – the entire country has 87% first dose and 72% double dosed).
It’s also total nonsense and contradictory that double vaccinated people that have negative covid tests are being locked down for 14 days in MIQ (quarantine) whilst people with Covid are being allowed to self isolate in the community.
How New Zealand, a country where it’s people greatly valued freedom off choice…..how we even got to this stage of blindly accepting this sort of unilateral rule, power and dictatorship from our government is deeply troubling indeed.
The lockdown continues week to week and we now just treat it as the status quo. I dont bother listening to official updates about it anymore, because I’m assuming we will still be doing this at Xmas. The kids are just over it.
They have had to open up the schools again for senior high school students, because we are near the end of the year and they need to study for exams. It’s possibly going to be a battleground of the vaxed vs the unvaxed, so I’ll keep a close eye on it when my daughter attends school again.
It was my birthday yesterday, and the kids set up a treasure hunt for me, which was quite fun.
Birthdays never do my diet any good, but I do generally go for a walk or bike ride everyday. We live on the edge of town so we always go out into the countryside for some piece and quiet.
It’s generally a struggle with teenage kids to get them out of the house and off their computers/phones, but today I suggested going to a local beach and they were in the car within 5 minutes, while screaming at my wife to hurry up and get in the car!
The kids had their ‘school holidays’ last week, but given that they have been stuck at home for the last nine weeks, it didn’t quite go as I planned six months ago.
I had originally planned to spend a week with the kids visiting old relatives and a few adventures (jet boating and kayaking) while we were down south, but ended up spending the week at home with the kids instead. On top of this, my oldest daughters birthday was last week as well.
To give the kids something to look forward to, I managed to buy a clay pizza oven online, as well as a few skateboards. The pizza oven went down a treat after a bit of working out how to get the best out of it.
The skateboarding went well until I fell off and sprained my wrist. Luckily, I still had the notes from the physiotherapist from when I sprained it last time….
The birthday party went as good we could get under the circumstances, and I think my daughter (16yrs) understands we did the best we could. It was a low key affair as no friends or relatives could attend. She was quite delighted to just have everyone play monopoly as well other card games.
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